Bruno Dallapiccola MD

Prof. Bruno Dallapiccola is a medical geneticist, Scientific Director of the Bambino Gesù Children Hospital (OPBG), Italy’s main pediatric Health Care and Research Institution.

Professor of Medical Genetics from 1979 to 2009 (Urbino University, Tor Vergata and Sapienza Universities in Rome). Director of the School of Specialization and of PhD in Medical Genetics at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1999 to 2009. Director of the Unit of Medical Genetics at the Forlanini Hospital and at the Umberto I Polyclinic in Rome. Scientific Director of the Health Care and Research Institution ‘Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza’ in Foggia, from 1991 to 2009. He has chaired the Mendel Medical Genetic Institute in Rome from 2000 to 2009. He has been President of the Italian Medical Cytogenetics, Medical Genetics, and Human Genetics Societies as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Society of Human Genetics.

He is a member and representative for the Italian Ministry of Health of the Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases (formerly European Union Committee of Experts on Rare Diseases – EUCERD). He is a member of the National Health Council and of the National Bioethics Committee. He is also responsible for Italy of the Orphanet project, the most important database for rare diseases at a worldwide level.